Re: gnus hanging on 1mb+ mails

[Gabriel Hidasy Rezende]

Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com> writes:

> asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:
>
>> Steven writes:
>>
>>> Gnus has been hanging for me on mails that are 1MB+ (the download gets
>>> to ~940kb and freezes until I cancel it with `C-g'), and I'm wondering
>>> if anyone has any tips on how they would troubleshoot such a problem.
>>> I'm a newish user, and not sure where to start.
>>
>> If you do M-x toggle-debug-on-quit before fetching a big email, then you
>> should get a backtrace when you hit C-g, I think.
>>
>>
>>   Best regards,
>>
>>     Adam
>
> I gave this a try. I'm trying to understand the output, but it's pretty
> complex for me. A lot of it seems to be regarding the RSS feeds I
> subscribe to, and those aren't the problem---it's getting these big
> mails. Anyway, here's the output. Do you see anything here that's
> related to the problem I'm having? Thank you! -Steven

About the RSS feeds, try putting then in a lower level (I keep then in
level 4 - S-L-4), this will not only save you from this messages, but
speed up (A LOT) updated in the important groups (mail)

-- 
Gabriel Hidasy
CsF - University of Pécs - Hungary
Ciência da Computação 2011 - Unicamp